Yildirim Yücel, Ergin Gülbin
Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, Cyprus.
J Back Musculoskelet Rehabil. 2013;26(3):307-16. doi: 10.3233/BMR-130385.
Fatigue is primarily a subjective experience and self-report is the most common approach used to measure fatigue. Numerous self-report instruments have been developed to measure fatigue. Unfortunately, each of these measures was tailored for the situation in which fatigue was studied. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of the Turkish language version of the Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue Scale (MAF-T) in chronic musculoskeletal physical therapy patients.
The MAF-T was supplied by the MAPI Research Institute, and 69 chronic musculoskeletal physical therapy patients were evaluated. To validate MAF-T, all participants completed the MAF-T and Short Form-36 (SF-36). The MAF was administered again one week later to assess test-retest reliability.
Using Cronbach α, the internal consistency reliability of the MAF-T was 0.90, the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) reliability was 0.96. Item-discriminant validity was calculated between r=0.14 and r=0.82. The correlations between the total scores of the MAF-T scale and the subscale scores of SF-36 were negative and significant (p< 0.01).
The MAF-T is a valid and reliable scale for assessing fatigue in chronic musculoskeletal physical therapy patients.
疲劳主要是一种主观体验，自我报告是测量疲劳最常用的方法。已经开发了许多自我报告工具来测量疲劳。不幸的是，这些测量方法中的每一种都是针对研究疲劳的特定情况量身定制的。因此，本研究的目的是确定多维疲劳评估量表土耳其语版（MAF-T）在慢性肌肉骨骼物理治疗患者中的信度和效度。
MAF-T由MAPI研究所提供，对69例慢性肌肉骨骼物理治疗患者进行了评估。为了验证MAF-T，所有参与者都完成了MAF-T和简短健康调查量表（SF-36）。一周后再次进行MAF测试以评估重测信度。
使用克朗巴哈α系数，MAF-T的内部一致性信度为0.90，组内相关系数（ICC）信度为0.96。项目区分效度在r=0.14至r=0.82之间计算得出。MAF-T量表总分与SF-36子量表得分之间的相关性为负且具有显著性（p<0.01）。
MAF-T是评估慢性肌肉骨骼物理治疗患者疲劳的有效且可靠的量表。
